diff --git a/var/spack/packages/fileutils/package.py b/var/spack/packages/fileutils/package.py
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index 73398a826c5aa015561cd15a6d929ad163cd72b1..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/var/spack/packages/fileutils/package.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-import os
-from spack import *
-
-class Fileutils(Package):
-    """FileUtils provides a suite of MPI-based tools to manage large files
-       and datasets on parallel file systems."""
-
-    homepage = "https://github.com/hpc/fileutils"
-    url      = "https://github.com/hpc/fileutils/releases/download/v0.0.1-alpha.4/fileutils-0.0.1-alpha.4.tar.gz"
-
-    version('0.0.1-alpha.4', 'e37b48ea43c95f5a1ede0ee01019ae58')
-
-    depends_on('mpi')
-    depends_on('libcircle')
-    depends_on('libarchive')
-    depends_on('dtcmp')
-
-    def install(self, spec, prefix):
-        configure("--prefix=" + prefix,
-                  "--with-dtcmp=" + spec['dtcmp'].prefix)
-        make()
-        make("install")